Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

Ellen Glasgow Papers, Accession 10212, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Acquisition Information

Gift, 13 Apr 1977

Funding Note

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Scope and Content

This collection consists of twenty-five letters written by Ellen Glasgow to Edmund M. Preston between 1934 and 1944. Many of the letters are brief social ones in which Miss Glasgow mentions visits to or from Preston and members of his family, all residents of Richmond ; thanks him for bouquets of yellow roses, her favorite flower which he often sent for special occasions or an illness; discusses her health; or describes her vacations in Maine . In several letters she discusses with Preston, apparently her lawyer, such legal matters as her will, her literary estate and an [animal?] shelter she started. In 1939 she asks him to escort her to the city jail and to the Negro section of Richmond so that she might do research for a book. In another letter she discusses the city pound's practice of sending dogs out of state for vivisection rather than turning them over to the S. P. C. A . She asks Preston to discuss alternatives with "Dr. Bigger."